138 research outputs found
Chewing the communal cud: Community deliberation in broadsheet letters and political blogs
No full textContending that media users are more than consumers and that the mass media are able to achieve more in the public sphere than simply meet market demand, Mummery and Rodan argue in this chapter that some types of mass media may in fact fulfil public sphere responsibilities
Chewing the Communal Cud
No full textContending that media users are more than consumers and that the mass media are able to achieve more in the public sphere than simply meet market demand, Mummery and Rodan argue in this chapter that some types of mass media may in fact fulfil public sphere responsibilities. The authors demonstrate how forums such as broadsheet letters to the editor and online political blogs—despite their commonly recognised limitations due to influence by private/commercial ownership, editorship, and the requirements of authorship—may exemplify, enable and support community deliberation over issues of public concern. More specifically, via engaging with Jürgen Habermas’ conceptions of the necessary conditions for rational and communal deliberation, and critically examining recent debates in these forums, the authors argue both that these mediated forums can enable and exemplify community deliberation and, more generally, that community deliberation itself does not need to be strictly consensus-oriented to be productive.</jats:p
Imperatives for Climate Governance for States in the Anthropocene: An Agenda for Transformation
No full textThis book engages with a pressing question: How does global climate change increase the need for accountable governance? It examines interdisciplinary approaches to consider how accountable climate governance mechanisms can meet the complex challenges of environmental changes impacting natural systems and the global distributions of species, water, arable and habitable land. Integrated approaches that take heed of ecological and biological systems are identified as enabling better understandings of accountable climate governance systems, human and environmental interfaces, political and economic sectoral interplay and scalable solutions. It argues that achieving accountable climate governance mechanisms will enable states to meet the expectations of informed citizens and provide better environmental outcomes
Re-reading interpretation : The way forward for an ethico-political engagement
No full textNow if we might be inclined to endorse Heidegger's deconstruction of politics [and ethics] in modernity as being complicitous with a certain metaphysics of the will, a metaphysics which is ultimately hegemonic and destructive, we might also be willing to wonder whether the task of thinking that emerges from this diagnosis is not ultimately heading toward a philosophical dead end, one which, to be more specific, seems to rule out the very possibility of praxis
Hermeneutic Constructivism : An ontology for qualitative research
No full textQualitative research is entirely an operation with language, in language, and occasionally on language. This article suggests a tension between theoretical recognition of a multiplicity of human experience on one hand and a reliance upon practices of thematic representation that prioritize the common or the general over individualized experience. The fulcrum of this tension is the nature of language itself and its role in human experience and meaning-making. This article sets out the theoretical foundations of Hermeneutic Constructivism as one proposed approach to redress this problematic within many qualitative frameworks and open up an opportunity for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of human being. Within Hermeneutic Constructivism, a Fundamental Postulate and 11 elaborative corollaries detail a cogent relationship between language and the structures and processes of mental activity that support the human comportment toward understanding. The authors argue that this theoretical position is able to inform a model for qualitative research that makes possible an exploration of a person’s experience at a deeper level of abstraction and that may provide an avenue for overcoming this identified tension. © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017
Transformative climate change adaptation:Bridging existing approaches with post-foundational insights on justice
No full textClimate adaptation is a complex policy domain, spanning multiple sectors, scales and actors, and wherein those most at risk have the least power. The influence of linear positivist models of science uptake are proving ineffective in a world with increasingly concentrated wealth and power, institutional barriers, and rapidly growing risks facing the many. A plurality of approaches is needed to better examine those dynamics of climate adaptation which are often invisible in models of science uptake–equity, the value of contestation, path dependency–and to consider how to empower communities to find solutions. In this conceptual paper, we argue that bridging existing positivist and interpretivist methods with insights from post-foundational theory so as to underpin pluralism and re-orient ethical principles of justice, strengthens the capacity of social research to support transformative climate adaptation. Principles are proposed to facilitate such bridging.</p
Imperatives for Climate Governance for States in the Anthropocene: An Agenda for Transformation
No full textGiven recognition of human causation of planetary-scale climate change, this chapter proposes four imperatives which together enable the testing of governance approaches regarding their address of climate change. After elaborating each imperative in turn, they are used to evaluate how climate change-oriented governance has performed in several Australian contexts, including renewable energy, water policy reform and management of synthetic greenhouse gases. What is foregrounded through analysis is that these imperatives must come to drive governance and policy across levels and across domains, whether directly framed as targeting climate change or not, along with the importance of polycentric and decentralised approaches. This is particularly true when national leadership is inadequate because of the strong intersectionality and impact of leadership, experimentation and anticipation in climate change-oriented governance
Neuroimaging studies of the distributed semantic system and its disruption in disease
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Students’ Beliefs Regarding Philosophical Study and Their Development as Critical Thinkers
No full textOvercoming segregation problematics for environmentally accountable and transformative policy in a changing climate: The case of Australia’s EPBC Act.
No full textThe needs for environmental accountabilities and sustainability transformation are growing in Australia due to changing climate and collapsing biodiversity, but building robust environmental accountabilities and enabling sustainability transformation and human, nonhuman and ecological community resilience is proving elusive. This chapter examines Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act)—the Australian Government’s key legislation for protecting environments of national significance—which has recently been reviewed, and found to have achieved few of its stated objectives. This analysis utilises a critical environmental accountability frame to better understand how the legislation’s procedures and norms have translated into ineffective practice. Three longstanding, problematic tendencies of segregation—between (a) human and ecological cultures; (b) science, and policy and practice; and (c) sectoral scopes of policy—are identified to help explain the barriers to and challenges in enabling robust environmental accountability. Examining the EPBC Act and these problematics of segregation, the chapter outlines how relational rather than segregated understandings might build stronger pathways towards the environmental accountability and socio-environmental transformation needed for the challenges of the Anthropocene.<br/
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